For our 2005-2006 New Year’s Eve celebration, my friends and I visited downtown Fort Lauderdale Florida. The Las Olas Riverfront area is full of a variety of bars, clubs, and restaurants. During the night, we partied at Brick, Automatic Slims, Rush Street, Art Bar and the Voodoo Lounge.

In search of more horsepower, my brother has installed a Borla high performance exhaust system on to his 1994 Ford Mustang Cobra. Now this American muscle car has a deeper exhaust note and a generous helping of extra HP and torque.

Another stop on our Naples Florida trip was to visit the Pelican Landing Island Beach Park. Guests of the Hyatt hotel and residents of the Pelican Landing community can access the exclusive island beach via a water taxi.

This fun little science experiment was picked up at a museum’s gift shop. It consists of a blotter paper tree and some “magic” liquid that creates the crystals as it absorbed by the tree and evaporates on the branches.

I recently went to Gainesville Florida to visit my brother and a couple of old college buddies. I took pictures of the University of Florida Campus, the UF Bat House, Student Agricultural Gardens, Lake Alice, and Devil’s Millhopper.